(…) if you lie you’re going to tilt what you believe towards the lie because that will lighten the ethical load that you carry, it’ll reduce cognitive dissonance, that’s one way of terming it and so, and then you can’t keep track of your lies and so, that’s a big problem and they tangle up your toughts (…) lies, they just warp things to a tremendous degree and if you think you’re smart enough to keep your lies separate from your truth…
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Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, carta para a filha Ellen, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1848
Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don’t need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.
—James Clear, 3-2-1
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